Preface ix
Introduction 1
Part One The City in Christian Thought 23
1 Augustine’s Two Cities 25
2 Monasticism and Utopian Visions 43
3 The City as Sacred 63
4 The City and the Reformations 81
5 Michel de Certeau: Everyday Practices and the City 99
Part Two Theological Reflection and the City 115
6 Place and the Sacred 117
7 The Art of Community 137
8 Reconciliation and Hospitality 157
9 Urban Virtues 179
Epilogue: A Spiritual Vision of the Human City 201
Select Reading 211
Index 221

Philip Sheldrake is Senior Research Fellow at Westcott House in the Cambridge Theological Federation and Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Spirituality, Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio Texas. He has taught and written extensively in the field of Christian spirituality, on the nature of space and place in religion, and on spirituality more generally. He is involved internationally in interreligious dialogue. His dozen books include Spirituality: A Brief History, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), Explorations in Spirituality: History, Theology and Social Practice (2010), Spirituality and History, Second Edition (1998) and, as editor, New SCM/Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality (2005). He is a Past President of the international Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality.